Re: Database files

jbaker_at_moby.micro.umn.edu (Jeffrey J Baker) writes:

>The company I work for has been thinking about moving their Oracle development
>system from a RISC platform to one running OS/2. I know that there will be no
>problem reloading the existing forms, but what I am wondering about is whether
>or not the existing database files (dbs*.dbf) can be copied directly over to
>the new system. Has anyone had experience with this procedure? Are there other
>problems with doing this that I am not taking into consideration?
>Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
 

>Jeff
>jbaker_at_cs.umn.edu

         I doubt the file systems are compatible. What you would want to do
         is to EXPORT the data from the RISC box and then IMPORT the
         data on the OS/2 box.  It's fairly simple and you can keep 
         views and access rights together as well.

Rich H.
Rutgers U. Received on Tue Jan 26 1993 - 22:04:45 CET